No doubt the agricultural-implement makers and the mail-order houses do a better business. But the city department stores do a smaller business.

不消说，农机农具厂商和邮购公司的生意显然会更加红火，但是城市百货公司的生意会不如从前。

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In the early part of this century, Sears Roebuck sold houses by mail-order. Many are still sturdy and habitable 80 years on.

本世纪初，西尔斯·罗巴克用邮件征订的方法卖房子，许多房子八十年来还是那么坚固适用。

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Levy has also bought into Caremark Rx , which manages employee prescription benefit plans and is one of the biggest mail-order houses for prescription drugs.

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Their complaint: that pharmacy benefit managers, which design health plans for companies and insurers, offer retailers a take-it-or-leave-it contract that makes it impossible for them to compete on drug prices with mail-order houses.

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